Yahoo! has proposed an updated settlement package worth $117.5 million for millions of users who were victims of data breaches.
When I Die I Want You to Delete My Facebook Account
When I die I want you to delete my Facebook account. Don’t parade my digital corpse around in Facebook’s new Tributes feature.
Facebook is rolling out several updates for memorialized accounts, which are profiles that remain active for people who have passed away. A dedicated tributes tab will let friends and family share stories and memories of their loved one, allowing the late person’s timeline to stay as it was before they passed away.
Ming-Chi Kuo: New MacBook Pros Coming in 2021
Top Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has updated investors on the details and release schedule for new MacBook Pros and iPads.
An Inside Look at How Charging Cables Work
Charging cables are a requirement for any electrical device. But have you ever wondered how they work? Rhett Allain tells us.
Inside each of those cables are multiple wires. It doesn’t matter if the cable is used for power or for data—there have to be at least two wires inside. That is because all electric circuits depend on loops. You can’t make a loop with just one wire.
China Planning to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining
China is moving to ban mining cryptocurrency. Bloomberg News reports that having banned coin offerings in 2017, as well as asking local exchanges to stop trading, Chinse officials are preparing to go a step further.
The National Development Reform Commission, the country’s powerful economic planner, this week listed crypto-mining among a plethora of industries it intends to eliminate because they “seriously wasted resources” or polluted the environment. The agency is seeking public feedback on the guidelines and indicated that the crypto-mining ban could take effect as soon as they’re formally issued… While China was once home to about 70 percent of Bitcoin mining and 90 percent of trades, authorities have waged a nearly two-year campaign to shrink the crypto industry amid concerns over speculative bubbles, fraud and wasteful energy consumption.
Julianne Moore Will Star in Apple’s ‘Lisey’s Story’ Series
Apple won a bidding war for an adaptation of Stephen King’s horror-romance called Lisey’s Story, starring Julianne Moore.
Which One is Better for the Environment: Physical or Digital Music?
A study published yesterday found that streaming digital music led to “unintended” environmental and economic impacts. Despite a reduction in the use of plastics in physical music media, storing and transmitting digital music led to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).
Researchers discovered that the amount of GHGs generated by the streaming and downloading of music online is actually much larger than the amount that was once generated by the production of plastic used to make vinyl records, cassettes and CDs in earlier decades.
The study seems focused on plastic use in physical media vs. storing and streaming digital music from servers. I’d like to see more data, such as how much electricity is used when billions of people play the average CD vs. a digital song.
Secret Service 101 - Don't Plug Random Thumb Drives Into the Computer
When a Chinese national was arrested at President Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in March, the Secret Service confiscated a variety of devices from her. These included a thumb drive. Now, you might think the one thing you would not do in such circumstances is plug that thumb drive into a Secret Service computer. According to Miami Herald, you’d be wrong.
Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang on the day of her arrest, testified at the hearing. He stated that when another agent put Zhang’s thumb drive into his computer, it immediately began to install files, a “very out-of-the-ordinary” event that he had never seen happen before during this kind of analysis. The agent had to immediately stop the analysis to halt any further corruption of his computer, Ivanovich testified.
Will Tonight's NCAA Basketball Championship Air in 4K?
A viewer writes the TV Answer Man:
… I bought a new 4K TV so my question is: Will the March Madness final on Monday night be in 4K? If so, which channel?
The answer is no. ::grumble::
TMO Background Mode Interview with Takeoff Technologies President Max Pedró
Max Pedró is an eCommerce and financial services entrepreneur. Today, Max is the Co-Founder and President of Takeoff Technologies Inc.
Takeoff Technologies aims at transforming on-line grocery retailing by developing a marketplace of efficient automated robotic fulfillment centers to solve the cost and immediacy issues of grocery shopping.
I asked Max all the tough questions about having a robot pick groceries off the shelves and prepare for pickup or delivery. What about customer preferences for just the right piece of fruit or cut of meat? What about perishables? What about the security of the iOS app? Will they sell customer data? Can we use Apple Pay? And finally, how does the grocery chain obtain an ROI? Max has the answers in this fascinating interview.
